Cannon balls

There are cannon balls of all sizes laying around the castle grounds. These are small compared to most. They are very heavy.

Ancient castle dinner party with EMYR

In the river…

I don’t know what it was about that weekend, but a few boat crews ended up in the drink.A little earlier Andy, Lee and myself fished a couple of blokes out of the river, and towed their boat back to their clubhouse. They had had enough for the day.Unli…

Wet Or Dry Exhaust – Which Is Best?

We have discussed the merits and demerits of wet and dry exhausts in the past. After much study, and dialog with commercial and pleasure users, we opted for a wet system on Wind Horse and saw no reason to change with the FPB 64s. Recently we were challenged on this subject, and after answering, challenged again, […]

I knew I was

going t run into this lil’ issue eventually.The side panels I’m working on are 32′ 3″ long and the shed is only 32′! Doh! But I knew I’d run into this issue eventually.So I’ve had a plan to open up the barn doors and frame in a smaller door and canopy….

Kyrenia Castle Museum

St Hilarion Castle

Girne North Cyprus

friday the 19th around 2pm, we had an overnight passage from Alayna with The EMYR, 54 boats total. N Cyprus is located 64 km from the shores of Turkey, 96km from Syria, and 400km from Eqypt. It was our first attempt at med tying, which is stern to the …

OBX

We cruised a few long days in order to make landfall at Manteo, NC. We took advantage of good weather to put some miles under the keel and make, of all things, a scheduled stop. Normally a foreign thought aboard Maerin, we initiated the travel-on-a-pla…

BALD HEAD ISLAND!!!!

Since our cruising plans are taking us away from the Cape Fear at the end of May, we thought we absolutely had to take the last opportunity to cruise over to Bald Head Island. It’s just a two hour cruise from Joyner Marina, and the weather was forec…